Kind: Reposts

interesting that after a decade or so of mainstream consensus that anonymity is bad and antisocial and everyone should use real names on platforms that rewarded both outrageousness and outrage, we hit a point in about 2014(??) at which people started just continuously saying previously unspeakable things under their official headshots

—@kissane

I’m gonna come out and say it again — if you feel the need to refuse standard of care medical treatment for religious or moral reasons, you don’t belong in medicine. Just fuck off and find a career where vulnerable people relying on you don’t suffer because of your selfishness. I treat nazis. I treat pedophiles. I treat people of all stripes. I’ve treated drunk drivers after I took the radio call to pronounce time of death for their victims.

We. Don’t. Refuse. Care.

—@mcnado

Social Security is not insurance. It’s not a savings account you paid into and now can withdraw from. Social Security doesn’t work like that. The Republicans would desperately like you to believe it does because then you won’t realize that Social Security is socialism for old people. They want you to believe that you have to have worked hard to “deserve” Social Security, or that you might be able to get more money from it if you invested instead of giving your money to the government.

Social Security distributes money to people who are eligible for it. They could easily make us all eligible for it. That’s what they don’t want you to know. It’s funded by the government, not by people paying into it. It’s not going to “run out” unless the government cuts funding for it. It’s a line item in the budget. That line item could be increased easily by increasing revenue through higher taxes on the rich, or through cutting spending for the military. Social Security is a basic income, which could be made universal if there was the political will to do so.

Thus endeth the sermon.

—@intransitivelie

I know tomorrow is rough for some people. For those who endured or still endure #abuse and for those who’s #mother has passed on, for those of us who have wanted #children but never gotten to parent them, so much care to each of you.

—@Faylen

Y’all, DeSantis labeling Mr. Perry a good samaritan is peak 2023 Republicanism.

Using the parable of the good Samaritan, Mr. Neely would have been offered help such as food and shelter by Mr. Perry, not choked to death for 15 minutes.

Good Samaritans HELP people. The “good guy with a gun” (or chokehold?) is not a good samaritan, because they aren’t helping someone in distress. They may be some other cultural hero archetype, but they sure as fuck aren’t samaritans.

—@mcnado

Now that we’ve had some time to think on it, we’re wondering why the National Federation of the Blind is essentially hosting the #AccessiBe Rehabilitation tour. Specifically, what convinced the organization’s leadership that such a badly behaved player in the accessibility space has really turned over a new leaf?

—@worldblindherald

And folks in r/Blind are essentially calling it horseshit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/13eno41/what_is_your_opinion_on_the_apology_issued_by_the/

—@aardrian

I have read #accessiBe’s funding round / redemption tour and I am not swayed.

• the ‘apology’ is not on its site;
• old harmful content persists;
• the words are lifted from your free labor;
• angry tech bros gonna tech bro?

https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html#RedemptionTour

#a11y #accessibility

[Edited to fix typo]

—@aardrian

Well, the Fediverse can cope with a full Eurovision it seems. It has passed the sacred trials.

—@guffo

#WebDev people, please don’t use #accessibility overlays when making your site. They create more problems than they solve for people with disabilities and they’re not enough for #WCAG compliance. Accessibility can’t and shouldn’t be automated, you should actually care, solve it at the source and listen. Here’s why: https://overlayfactsheet.com/#what-is-a-web-accessibility-overlay

—@gracjan

Glass Cliff Theory holds that once the boys network have decided a CEO job is too hard or the company unsalvageable THEN they give it to a woman. And when she fails they blame it on her.

So if/when Space McAfee boasts about appointing a female CEO to Twitter, remember that.

More on Glass Cliff Theory from the university of Exeter here:

https://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/cic/about/theglasscliff/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20glass%20cliff,Minister%20Teresa%20May%20and%20Brexit.

—@garius

I have a hard time having any sympathy for accessibility overlay companies even as they send public apologies.

Because other ones are trying to sue accessibility practitioners to silence them still.

Yes, different companies are different but I see similar motivations.

—@annaecook

for the last year or more above me in the mornings i hear what seems to be someone coming into a room and then a ball being dropped at a low height.

the sound of a ball bouncing several times in lessening heights is unmistakeable and its like totally perplexed me what was going on.

a whole year

bom bom bom bom bombombombommm

a dog. its a dog, its the owners dog pushing into the bedroom and dropping a ball to ask to be taken out to play.

—@siege

Mastodon may not be perfect, but it sure has gotten pretty awesome lately. This week the community boosted a discourse on the tautological placename etymology “Torpenhow Hill”, which actually translates to “hill, hill, hill, hill”, and a one billion year time lapse animation of two galaxies colliding. We registered our collective outrage at CNN, featured amazing artwork and photography, and recognized scientist Grace Hopper, inventor of the first compiler. What’s not to love!

#twittermigration

—@mastodonmigration

Especially if you’ve been subscribed to the Patreon for Low Quality Facts, let it be publicly known that they have been selling all of their “facts” as NFTs on opensea for Etherium since August 2021. Their account been suspended from mstdn.social today for this crypto scheme and, last I checked, they had a lot of followers around here.

—@sudaksis

new term just discovered from urban dictionary

—@EeveeEuphoria

Who wants to be the one to tell them that we need to leave for work soon? #ServiceDog #DogsOfMastodon

—@Pawpower

Anderson Cooper lecturing people has me seeing red. How dare he. #CNN shoved Trump in our faces and he’s trying to make it sound as if we’re being unappreciative???

Last I checked viewers dictate what is popular, not what the networks think we should be watching.

Forcing an insurrectionist into our living rooms was bad enough. Telling us we should like it is beyond the pale.

#BoycottCNN

—@sugarcheri

Don’t listen to anyone who says “likes don’t matter” on here.

Yes, it’s true that there’s no algorithm for them to feed.

But letting people you know that you like what they’re sharing, that you agree with them, that they’re not just shouting into an empty abyss? That matters.

—@design_law

All of my money and gratitude to businesses that provide vacant/occupied notices on bathroom doors. It is an A+++ customer experience that seems to be on the rise. I’ve yet to see an accessible version, though.

—@rachelcherry